TopTenREVIEWS presents the film career and movie reviews of Woody Allen.

Woody Allen
Birthdate: December 1, 1935

Woody Allen

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CAREER SPAN

Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1960s
1.8957
3
total ranking of 1.8957
1970s
3.4144
7
total ranking of 3.4144
1980s
2.9856
7
total ranking of 2.9856
1990s
2.9518
9
total ranking of 2.9518
2000s
2.4095
11
total ranking of 2.4095
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: Woody Allen is ranked overall as 3.1904 of of 4 stars3.1904

Woody Allen Movie Rankings

1
Woody Allen starring in Annie Hall
Woody Allen scores a combined 3.6413 out of 4 stars for Annie Hall3.6413
Romantic adventures of neurotic New Yorkers Alvy Singer and his girlfriend Annie Hall. The film follows the course of their relationship from their first meeting, to their eventual separation. The film explores themes related to dating in 1970s society. ...more about Annie Hall
Actor Awards
  • Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
  • Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Musical/Comedy
2
Woody Allen starring in Manhattan
Woody Allen scores a combined 3.5666 out of 4 stars for Manhattan3.5666
This movie focuses on the life of 42-year-old Isaac Davis (Woody Allen) who is going through a midlife crisis. His wife, Jill (Meryl Streep), leaves him for another woman which provokes a relationship with Tracy (Mariel Hemingway), a 17-year-old high school student who falls in love with him. ...more about Manhattan
Actor Awards
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
3
Woody Allen starring in Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen scores a combined 3.3973 out of 4 stars for Hannah and Her Sisters3.3973
Hannah and her sisters are very close; they tell each other practically everything. Over the course of several years, their lives become very complicated each struggling with love and career. ...more about Hannah and Her Sisters
Actor Awards
  • American Comedy Awards, USA - Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
  • BAFTA Awards - Best Actor
4
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Woody Allen scores a combined 3.0630 out of 4 stars for Crimes and Misdemeanors3.0630
Opthalmologist Judah Rosenthal has had an affair with Dolores for several years, and now she threatens to ruin his life if he doesn't marry her. ...more about Crimes and Misdemeanors
5
Antz (1998)
Woody Allen scores a combined 3.0141 out of 4 stars for Antz3.0141
Z, a worker-ant dissatisfied with his position in the colony pines for Princess Bala. Z switches places with his best friend, a solider ant, for a parade and unknowingly marches into battle. The soul survivor Z is regarded as a hero, and spreads the idea of individualism through the colony. ...more about Antz
6
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.9939 out of 4 stars for Husbands and Wives2.9939
When Jack and Sally announce that they're splitting up, this comes as a shock to their best friends Gabe and Judy. Maybe mostly because they also are drifting apart and are now being made aware of it. ...more about Husbands and Wives
7
Sleeper (1973)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.9882 out of 4 stars for Sleeper2.9882
A clarinet player who also runs a health food store is frozen and brought back in the future by anti-government radicals in order to assist them in their attempts to overthrow an oppressive government. ...more about Sleeper
8
Everyone Says I Love You (1996)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.9349 out of 4 stars for Everyone Says I Love You2.9349
Holden and Skylar are in love with each other. Skylar lives with a large and extended family on Manhattan. Her parents, Bob and Steffi have been married to each other for many years. Joe, a friend of theirs, who has a daughter, DJ, with Steffi. ...more about Everyone Says I Love You
Actor Awards
  • Satellite Awards - Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical
  • Not Available on DVD
9
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures (2001)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.9139 out of 4 stars for Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures2.9139
  • Not Available on DVD
10
Sweet and Lowdown (1999)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8973 out of 4 stars for Sweet and Lowdown2.8973
A comedic biopic focused on the life of fictional jazz guitarist Emmett Ray. Ray was an irresponsible, free-spending, arrogant, obnoxious, alcohol-abusing, miserable human being, who was also arguably the best guitarist in the world. ...more about Sweet and Lowdown
11
Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8905 out of 4 stars for Deconstructing Harry2.8905
Harry Block is a well-regarded novelist whose tendency to thinly-veil his own experiences in his work, as well as his un-apologetic attitude and his proclivity for pills and whores, has left him with three ex-wives that hate him. ...more about Deconstructing Harry
12
Take the Money and Run (1969)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8819 out of 4 stars for Take the Money and Run2.8819
This film is presented as a documentary on the life of an incompetent, petty criminal called Virgil Starkwell, played by Woody Allen. ...more about Take the Money and Run
13
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8574 out of 4 stars for Small Time Crooks2.8574
Dishwasher and small-fry criminal Ray hits on a plan with his partners in crime to re-open a local pizza place and dig through to the bank down the street. As his wife can't cook pizza but does great cookies, that's what they sell. ...more about Small Time Crooks
14
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8410 out of 4 stars for Manhattan Murder Mystery2.8410
Larry and Carol are fairly normal New Yorkers who have sent their son off to college. They meet an elderly couple down the hall and later in the week find that the wife has suddenly died. ...more about Manhattan Murder Mystery
15
Bananas (1971)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8234 out of 4 stars for Bananas2.8234
Fielding Mellish (a consumer products tester) becomes infatuated with Nancy (a political activist). He attends demonstrations and tries in other ways to convince her that he is worthy of her love, but Nancy wants someone with greater leadership potential. ...more about Bananas
16
Mighty Aphrodite (1995)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.8167 out of 4 stars for Mighty Aphrodite2.8167
Lenny adopts, convinced by his wife, a boy who becoming older surprises them with his intelectual qualities. Therefore both deceide to search for his real, biological mother. ...more about Mighty Aphrodite
17
Front, The (1976)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.7921 out of 4 stars for Front2.7921
In the early 1950s Howard Prince, who works in a restaurant, helps out a black-listed writer friend by selling a TV station a script under his own name. The money is useful in paying off gambling debts, so he takes on three more such clients. ...more about Front
18
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.7538 out of 4 stars for Broadway Danny Rose2.7538
Danny Rose is a manager of artists, and although he's not very successful, he nevertheless goes out of his way to help his acts. So when Lou Canova, a singer who has a chance of making a come-back, asks Danny to help him with a problem, Danny helps him. ...more about Broadway Danny Rose
20
Love and Death (1975)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.6912 out of 4 stars for Love and Death2.6912
Woody Allen plays a Russian {Woody Allen Character} who is caught up in the Napoleonic invasion of his country. Much of the humor comes from the philosophic conversations that people break into in the midst of crisis situations. ...more about Love and Death
21
Curse of the Jade Scorpion, The (2001)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.6832 out of 4 stars for Curse of the Jade Scorpion2.6832
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. ...more about Curse of the Jade Scorpion
22
Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, A (1982)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.6811 out of 4 stars for Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy2.6811
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Darcy, renowned philosopher Dr. ...more about Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
23
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.6527 out of 4 stars for Play It Again2.6527
A mild mannered film critic is dumped by his wife and his ego is crushed. His hero persona is the tough guy played by Humphrey Bogart in many of his movies and the apparition of Bogart begins showing up to give him advice. ...more about Play It Again
24
Scoop (2006)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.5958 out of 4 stars for Scoop2.5958
Woody Allen produces a quick follow up to MATCH POINT with SCOOP. Set in London and with Scarlett Johansson in a leading role once again, the story concerns an affair between an American journalism student (Johansson) and an aristocrat (Hugh Jackman). ...more about Scoop
25
Hollywood Ending (2002)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.5851 out of 4 stars for Hollywood Ending2.5851
Woody Allen plays Val Waxman, a film director, who was once big in the 1970's and 1980's, but has now has been reduced to directing TV commercials. Finally, he gets an offer to make a big film. ...more about Hollywood Ending
26
Anything Else (2003)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.5782 out of 4 stars for Anything Else2.5782
Jerry Falk (Jason Biggs) is an aspiring writer living in New York City who falls in love at first sight with Amanda (Christina Ricci) and dumps his girlfriend to get with her. ...more about Anything Else
27
Casino Royale (1967)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.4474 out of 4 stars for Casino Royale2.4474
Sir James Bond, a spy from the old school (a good spy is a pure spy) is called back to service by the death of "M" and the imminent collapse of civilization. ...more about Casino Royale
28
Stardust Memories (1980)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.4089 out of 4 stars for Stardust Memories2.4089
Sandy Bates, a successful filmmaker, attends a festival conducted to honor his work. During the course of the weekend he reconsiders his cinematic accomplishments as well as his past relationships. ...more about Stardust Memories
29
Shadows and Fog (1992)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.4026 out of 4 stars for Shadows and Fog2.4026
A small and insignificant bookkeeper, Kleinman, is awoken one night by his neighbours who wants him to help them track down a strangler who has been killing people all over town. ...more about Shadows and Fog
30
Outsider, The (2005)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.2807 out of 4 stars for Outsider2.2807
The Outsider, a feature-length documentary from first-time writer/director Nicholas Jarecki, is a film about film, specifically, the power of film to create, to move, and to endure. ...more about Outsider
  • Not Available on DVD
31
New York Stories (1989)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.1718 out of 4 stars for New York Stories2.1718
Three stories happening in New York. ...more about New York Stories
32
What's New, Pussycat (1965)
Woody Allen scores a combined 2.0651 out of 4 stars for What's New2.0651
Michael James, a notorious womanizer, desperately wants to be faithful to his fiancée Carole, but runs into serious problems since every woman he meets seems to fall in love with him. His psychoanalist Dr. ...more about What's New
33
Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Woody Allen scores a combined 1.2557 out of 4 stars for Scenes from a Mall1.2557
On their 16. anniversary, during a shopping stroll, the lawyer Nick Fifer confesses his wife Deborah some affairs. She goes wild and insists on a divorce. After they agreed to the dividing up of their belongings, Deborah confesses having an affair, too. ...more about Scenes from a Mall
34
Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
Woody Allen scores a combined 0.9376 out of 4 stars for Picking Up the Pieces0.9376
Woody Allen plays Tex, a kosher butcher. Sharon Stone plays his unfaithful wife Candy. Tex catches Candy in the act and in a fit of rage he kills her. To conceal his crime he cuts up her body and buries it in the desert in New Mexico. ...more about Picking Up the Pieces
35
Company Man (2001)
Woody Allen scores a combined 0.9306 out of 4 stars for Company Man0.9306
A satirical romp set in the early sixties, Company Man is the story of a nerdy Connecticut grammar school teacher who stumbles into becoming a legendary international spy hero in an effort to avoid his nagging wife. ...more about Company Man
  • Not Available on DVD
36
Hail Sid Caesar! The Golden Age of Comedy (2001)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD
37
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love (1980)
No Reviews Available
  • Not Available on DVD